Director of Strategic Sourcing

The Director, Strategic Sourcing is responsible for supplier economics, product sourcing, and upstream supply readiness across Hana Brands' food service operations. This leader ensures the right products are sourced from qualified suppliers at the right cost, quality, and service levels while building the supplier capacity needed to support continued growth.

The primary focus of the role is to lead supplier selection and performance, commercial negotiations, cost-of-goods management, new-item sourcing, product lifecycle planning, and upstream supply-risk mitigation. The role also oversees inbound product flow to McLane distribution facilities, ensuring supplier orders ship on time and freight is managed as efficiently as possible.

Working closely with Culinary, Quality Assurance, Operations, Analytics, Finance, Marketing, and Distribution, this position creates a clean handoff from suppliers into the distribution network and helps protect product availability across Hana Brands' locations.

Commercial Acumen, Strategic Thinking, Negotiates Effectively, Manages Risk, Drives Results, Collaborates Across Functions, Manages Complexity, Develops Talent, Communicates with Impact

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies aligned with Hana Brands' growth plans, product standards, operational requirements, and financial objectives.
• Identify, evaluate, qualify, negotiate with, and onboard suppliers capable of supporting current and future business needs, including primary, secondary, and contingency sources.
• Lead competitive sourcing processes, including requests for information, requests for proposals, bid analysis, supplier negotiations, and final recommendations.
• Build long-term supplier relationships that promote competitive economics, innovation, scalability, and continuous improvement, and maintain a current understanding of supplier capabilities, production locations, lead times, and capacity or financial risk.
• Own sourcing-related cost-of-goods performance and deliver product costs at or below established targets.
• Negotiate pricing, payment and freight terms, volume commitments, rebates, allowances, service expectations, and other commercial conditions, and implement appropriate pricing protections.
• Develop and maintain cost models that provide transparency into commodities, ingredients, packaging, labor, freight, and supplier margins, and monitor commodity markets and cost drivers to challenge proposed price increases.
• Lead value-engineering and cost-improvement initiatives without compromising food safety, product quality, brand standards, or the guest experience.
• Partner with Finance on budgets, forecasts, and savings targets, and validate, track, and report negotiated savings, cost avoidance, inflation, and other material changes affecting product costs.
• Ensure new items have approved suppliers, specifications, pricing, production capacity, lead times, minimum-order quantities, and contingency plans before launch, and coordinate production ramp-up, initial inventory builds, and inbound delivery timing to support clean launches.
• Develop sourcing and supply-readiness plans for product tests, limited-time offers, promotions, seasonal programs, and systemwide rollouts.
• Translate demand expectations and growth plans into supplier capacity and production requirements, assess supplier capacity and business-continuity capabilities, and elevate constraints with mitigation plans before product availability is affected.
• Ensure suppliers meet established product specifications, food-safety expectations, regulatory requirements, and quality standards in partnership with Quality Assurance.
• Ensure supplier orders are produced and shipped to McLane facilities according to committed schedules, monitor order status, fill rates, and delivery timing, and resolve inbound issues involving suppliers, ports, ocean carriers, customs, and over-the-road transportation.
• Optimize freight terms, shipment consolidation, order quantities, modes, routes, and lead times to reduce landed cost, and evaluate domestic and international freight economics as part of supplier selection and sourcing decisions.
• Partner with McLane and internal Distribution leadership to support a complete and accurate handoff of new items and supply changes into the distribution network.
• Serve as the primary sourcing partner to Culinary, Operations, Marketing, Quality Assurance, Finance, Analytics, and Distribution, and establish sourcing stage gates, decision rights,…